Mongols Deliberations Continue
The trial jury in the Mongol Nation racketeering trial continued to deliberate as of noon Pacific Time, Friday. The trial, which took just over five weeks, is the latest manifestation of a decade long...
View ArticleMore Interesting In Australia
After a four-year-long legal battle, a Sydney, Australia judge ruled Friday that police can search a Gypsy Joker Motorcycle Club clubhouse in Horsley Park, about 25 miles west of the city, whenever...
View ArticleAnti-Profiling Resolution
In virtually every trial involving a member of a one percenter motorcycle club prosecutors, and a parade of cops who have branded themselves as “outlaw biker experts,” tell the jury what “one...
View ArticleMongol Nation Guilty
About one o’clock yesterday afternoon a nine-woman, three-man jury in the federal courthouse in Santa Ana, California found Mongol Nation: An Unincorporated Association guilty of racketeering and...
View ArticleUndercover Drunks On Vacation
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto has given the four, drunken Pittsburgh cops who pepper sprayed, Tased and beat four Pagans Motorcycle Club members paid leaves. There are multiple investigations of the...
View ArticleMongols Thought Experiment
The United States versus Mongol Nation case has quickly devolved into a kind of thought experiment for lawyers. Over the last couple of weeks many distinguished trademark attorneys who have never...
View ArticleAugello Conviction Still Stinks
Seventy-seven days after retired Pagan Ferdinand “Freddy” Augello was convicted of murdering April Kauffman and 13 days after an Atlantic County, New Jersey judge named Bernard DeLury told Augello to...
View ArticleYear Of The Rat
More so than any other year in the last decade, 2018 was the year of the rat. A couple of cases, one state and one federal, related only by an obvious reliance on an evolving federal playbook,...
View ArticleMongol Nation Part Two
The widely misreported, entirely ridiculous Mongol Nation trial resumes Tuesday in a federal court in Santa Ana, California. On December 13, after listening to Assistant United States Attorneys Steven...
View ArticleThe Future Draws Near
You you can finally preorder the future of motorcycling. It is called the Harley-Davidson LiveWire. This morning at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Harley also put two...
View ArticleStay Calm, Don’t Panic
Mongol Nation probably lost the forfeiture phase of its RICO case today. The trial has been going on since Halloween. Everybody lost, just by having to be there. The jury looked like they were there...
View ArticleTampa’s Slow News Month
The Tampa Bay Times is reporting that “While motorcycle clubs are far from their heyday, they’re still around in the Tampa Bay area. Many may not realize it, but motorcycle gangs actually have a long...
View ArticleAnother Mongol Shoe Drops
Joseph Yanny, the attorney for Mongol Nation, filed a 35-page “Motion for a Judgment of Acquittal in the Guilt Phase” late this afternoon in the federal racketeering case United States versus Mongol...
View ArticleJury Rules Against Mongols
Late this morning, a jury in Orange County, California voted to repeal the First Amendment and strip the Mongols Motorcycle Club and various other identifiers of membership including the club’s name....
View ArticleUndercover Drunks Followed Procedure
Pittsburgh Public Radio station WESA is reporting that the city’s police bureau “does not have a written policy governing undercover officers who might drink while on the job.” The radio station had...
View ArticleKinfolk Trial Begins
Kinfolk Motorcycle Club member Javier Gonzalez began trial this morning in the 34th Judicial District Court in El Paso for the murder of Bandido Motorcycle Club chapter president Juan “Compa” Martinez...
View ArticleReyna Lands On His Paws
Abel Reyna, the former McLennan County District Attorney who is most famous for locking up 177 people and throwing away the key because he didn’t like the symbols that decorated their clothing, has...
View ArticleMongol Nation Opinions Sought
The Mongol Nation forfeiture verdict last week, in which a dozen ordinary men and women in suburban Los Angeles, were convinced by a pair of scalawag prosecutors to forbid members of the Mongols...
View ArticleTampa Biker Drama Continues
A member of the Pagans Motorcycle Club named James William Earl was found shot to death in his driveway yesterday morning in Spring Hill, Florida, about 50 miles north of Tampa. There is no reason to...
View ArticleThe Anti-Bandido
Javier Gonzalez, the Army deserter and Kinfolk Motorcycle Club member (above right) who shot up a bar full of Bandidos in El Paso on July 30, 2017 testified yesterday that he had to do it. Gonzalez is...
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